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1.2 Other Integrated Development Environments (IDEs) As mentioned in Section 1.1, there are many other IDEs available. If you have a Raspberry Pi, Python is already installed and so is another IDE called Thonny. This again is a relatively simple tool that is similar to IDLE. Thonny has some extra features to help learners understand what is happening in their more complicated programs.
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On the Raspberry Pi, you can start Thonny by selecting Thonny Python IDE from Programming in the main Menu in the task bar (Figure 1.3).
Figure 1.3: Starting Python 3 on a Raspberry Pi
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This opens Thonny, which contains both a Python shell and a script area in a single window, as shown in Figure 1.4.
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